taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	description	(Fig. 1 A- 1 D, 2) ZooBank: https: // zoobank. org / A 6 E 2677 A-F 8 E 3 - 4 F 67 - 9 D 84 - 63 CAECC 484 F 5	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype, ♂ (Fig. 1 A- 1 B), Ecuador – Pichincha / Nanegalito / mt. 800 October 1998 / currently housed in the private collection of Maurizio Bollino (Lecce, Italy), and will be deposited in Museo di Storia naturale del Salento (Calimera, Italy).	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	materials_examined	Paratype s (2 ♂) - 1 ♂, Ecuador – Esmeraldas / cantón San Lorenzo / sector San Francisco / m 200, Lgt. E. Aldas, in coll. Euclides Aldaz (Ambato, Ecuador); - 1 ♂, Ecuador – Pichincha / La Esperanza - 800 m / VIII- 03 / P. menatius ssp?, in coll. Mark Simon (Gainesville, USA).	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. – The new subspecies differs from other nearby subspecies for its smaller size, the discal band of the hindwings (HWs) entering into the cell both dorsally and ventrally, and for the conspicuous HWs red submarginal spots. Pterourus menatius elvirae Séraphin, 2015, the taxon most similar to the new subspecies, has the discal band of the HWs occasionally entering into the cell but only ventrally, and the submarginal spots on the HWs are yellow, except for the anal spot and that in space 1 b.	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	description	Description FW length: 47,5 mm. Upperside FWs. – Dark brown ground colour; cell with yellowish transverse band with its inner edge in line with CuA 1 and outer edge in line with M 2, slightly suffused with black scales along inner edge; one elongated yellow spot occupies inner half of space 3, and another occupies inner quarter of space 4; submarginal yellowish spots from space 1 b to space 8, that in space 1 b slightly suffused with red scales, spots gradually changing from rounded to elongated shape, and becoming progressively more suffused with dark scales. Underside FWs. – Ground colour chocolate-brown; spots as on upperside, except for small oblong postdiscal areas suffused with white scales in spaces 1 b and 2, and submarginal spots in spaces 1 b, 2 and 3 yellow and more conspicuous. Upperside HWs. – Ground colour as on FWs; yellow discal band enteringintothe cell witha smallapicalspot, andformed byelongated spots with rounded outer edge; bluish postdiscal spots in spaces 2 - 4, those in spaces 2 and 3 oval whereas that in space 4 is falciform with internal concavity; band of submarginal spots from space 1 b to space 8 slightly falciform with external concavity: those in spaces 1 b- 5 reddish, and those in spaces 6 - 8 increasingly suffused with yellowish scales. Underside HWs. – Ground colour chocolate-brown. Discal band as on upperside, outer edge bordered with reddish crescents; conspicuous submarginal red spots from space 1 b to space 8 plus a thin and minute reddish anal submarginal dot. Female The only available image of the female (fig. 2) of the new subspecies was taken on March 19, 2020, by a tourist in the Reserva Los Cedros, Imbabura, NW Ecuador, at an altitude of 1400 m, and sent to us by our friend and colleague Jean-Claude Petit. The specimen, very old and damaged, is visible only from the dorsal side and belongs to the blue-green form, a form also found in other subspecies of the menatius complex.	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	etymology	Derivatio nominis. – A noun in apposition referring to the Ecuadorian province Pichincha, the type-locality of the new subspecies.	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
03CA0C497106FF8A51E8F9BAFD8BB2E2.taxon	distribution	Distribution. – To the best of our knowledge, the new subspecies is distributed in the extreme north-west of Ecuador (map 1) at altitudes between 200 and 1400 meters.	en	Bollino, Maurizio, Racheli, Tommaso (2025): A new taxon of the Pterourus menatius complex from West Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Faunitaxys (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 13 (1): 1-6, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(01), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173
